Robert Rogers

Robert "White Devil" Rogers (7 November 1731-18 May 1795) was a British colonial frontiersman who was the leader of Rogers' Rangers in both the French and Indian War and American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Born in Methuen, Massachusetts, Rogers was of Scottish and Irish descent. Rogers moved to the untamed wilderness of the New Hampshire Frontier, where he gained a grasp of Frontier warfare in King George's War.

In 1755, during the French and Indian War, he founded Rogers' Rangers, and fought in the Battle on Snowshoes in 1758. Although it was a defeat, he escaped by sliding off a rock and into the frozen Lake George, making the French believe that he had died. Rogers' Rock is famous today, as Rogers is called the father of American scouting.

Rogers' fame with his 28 Rules of Scouting led to the continuation of his service in the British Army as one of the Loyalist Rebels in the American Revolutionary War, and he captured spy Nathan Hale in 1776 and executed him. Rogers had been friends with him, but he eventually saw through his disguise and had him arrested for espionage. He left the army in 1777 due to ill health and had on-and-off feelings of switching sides, and he died in England in poverty after the end of the revolution.